Steam keeps reporting new records. After Skyrim became the fastest selling game in the platform's history, it has now helped push Steam past the 5 million concurrent users mark:

"Valve's Steam and Game Stats page shows, at the time of publication, over the past 24 hours a peak of 5,012,468 users were logged in. Skyrim remains the most-played game on Steam by a huge margin - double the amount playing Team Fortress 2, the second-placed game."

We end the year on a light note: the Solitude New Years Party from Skyrim! Enjoy, have a great evening, and a very good new year. Thanks for visiting us in the past and coming years, and all the best for 2012!

If you haven't played the previous Elder Scrolls games, or if you're looking for an update on what happened in Oblivion and the other installment, check out this YouTube video. It's not that funny, but covers the events from Daggerfall to Skyrim and it's only two minutes anyway so have a look.

YouTube video explains previous events in the Elder Scrolls series in under two minutes

Zenimax (Bethesda's parent company) have announced that 10 million copies of Skyrim have shipped so far, roughly one month after release. That's a huge number, although shipped does not (yet) mean they've actually earned money on it.

Next to that, Skyrim "has outsold all other PC games by a factor of three to one in the month since its release, and currently holds the title for the fastest-selling game in Steam's history". Awesome :)

Last night, Spike TV hosted their annual Video Game Awards ceremony. Bethesda took the biggest prize: Skyrim won the Game of the Year award! They also grabbed the prize for Best RPG. Congratulations - and a deserved win!

Bethesda have just posted information about the 1.3 patch for Skyrim. It's out on Steam now for the PC version. More information will follow soon about the PS3 and Xbox patch. The changelog is as follows: